Jose Batlle y Ordonez

Jose Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordonez (23 May 1856-20 October 1929) was President of Uruguay from 5 February to 1 March 1899 (interrupting Juan Lindolfo Cuestas' terms), from 1 March 1903 to 1 March 1907 (succeeding Cuestas and preceding Claudio Williman), and from 1 March 1911 to 1 March 1915 (succeeding Williman and preceding Feliciano Viera). He was a member of the Colorado Party of Uruguay.

Biography
Jose Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordonez was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 23 May 1856, the son of President Lorenzo Batlle y Grau; he was the uncle of Luis Batlle Berres and the granduncle of Jorge Batlle Ibanez. He was a prominent journalist who founded the El Dia newspaper in 1886, criticizing his opponents and promoting his reformist agenda. He served as President in 1899, from 1903 to 1907, and from 1911 to 1915, and he was a staunch secularist (banning crucifixes from hospitals in 1906, eliminating references to God and the Bible in public oaths, and liberalizing divorce laws), supported expanded education (making it free, as well as welcoming women to universities), and fought for workers' rights (unemployment compensation, eight-hour workdays, and universal suffrage). He died in 1929.